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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 47.

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THREE persons have been baptized at Stanley, North Dakota.
THREE believers at Modesty Cove, Nova Scotia, have received baptism.
SEVEN additions to the church at Lenoir City, Tennessee, are reported.
ON Sabbath, October 21, three at Wausau, Wisconsin, received baptism.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL of sixteen members has been organized at Odon, Indiana.
FROM Samoa comes news of four natives who have accepted the truth there.
ON Sunday, October 22, five souls at Colman, South Dakota, received baptism.
SABBATH, October 21, four members were added to the church at Sioux City, Iowa.
FOUR adults recently united with the First African Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FIFTEEN converts are reported at Cordele, Georgia, as a result of the recent tent effort there.
THREE at Stillwater, Nevada, have received baptism and a number of others are considering it.
SEVEN or eight persons at Jackson, Mississippi, are obeying the truth, as the result of tent meetings held there recently.
A CHURCH of twenty members was organized at Colton, California, on a recent Sabbath. Two have been baptized at Chico.
THREE hundred persons in the Atlantic Union Conference have accepted the truths of the third angel's message during the past summer.
FIVE at Grove, Kentucky, have taken their stand for the truth and have been added to the church at that place, while three others are obeying who have not yet united.
ON a recent Sabbath eight souls at St. Louis, Missouri, were baptized, and five or six more will be baptized in a short time. Five new converts are reported at La Plata.
SEVERAL persons are obeying the message as the result of the tent effort conducted at Thornville, Ohio, recently. Seven adults at Wooster have signified their determination to obey.
EIGHT or ten at Eagle Cove, Texas, have identified themselves with those that "keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." Twenty are obeying the truth as a result of meetings held at Hale.
FROM Georgetown, British Guiana, South America, comes report of the baptism of ten earnest souls, and several others desire baptism in the near future. A tent has been pitched, and meetings commenced October 4.
ON a recent Sabbath, baptism was administered to six young persons at the Hastings Intermediate School, Hastings, Nebraska. Twelve additions to the Mitchell church are reported. Between twenty and twenty-five persons at Omaha have taken a stand for the truth.
ON Sabbath, October 21, thirteen more candidates in Portland, Oregon, were baptized, making forty-six in the past few weeks. Several others will be baptized later. Two were baptized at Toledo, and others are interested. A Sabbath-school of seventeen members was recently organized at Yoncalla.
ON October 1 four persons at Enfield, Minnesota, went forward in the ordinance of baptism. Eleven at Park Rapids have been baptized, and two at Hutchinson. A new church was dedicated on October 28 and 29 at Gilchrist, this church being the gift of Brother Ole Larson, one of the members of that place.
FOUR new converts united with the church at Campville, New York, on October 14. A church of fifteen members was organized at Oneida on Sabbath, October 14. Five others, it is hoped, will soon unite with this church. Seven persons were baptized in the German church of New York, on the 14th, and two in the Hungarian. Four have been baptized at Elmira.
THE town of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, where one of our branch offices is located, is having a tremendous growth. In 1880 a few Indians camped there. In 1890 it had a population of 2,500; in 1900, of 5,000; in 1910, of 45,000; and in 1920 a population of 200,000 is predicted. The Calgary Herald of October 2 tells a great story of progress.
THE Nevada (Iowa) Evening Journal of October 20, 1911, has the following item which will be of interest to many of our readers: "Prof. J. G. Lamson, principal of Oak Park Academy, is now entitled to practise law in the courts of Iowa, having been admitted to the supreme court upon motion of the attorney-general yesterday morning at Des Moines. Professor Lamson was admitted to the bar in Michigan in 1890, and to the federal Supreme Court in 1909."